Marcus Tullius Cicero, one of the best speakers of all ages, from childhood was trained in the intricacies of rhetoric. Cicero excelled not only as an effective public speaker, who managed to win most of the arguments in which he was involved, but also as a theorist of the art of oral persuasion who produced themed treatises Rhetoric. The book presents a short anthology of Cicero's text from his treatise on the rhetoric. The texts worked captured the nature of the classical rhetorical system of persuasion, a system that helped Cicero and many other orators become effective speakers, capable of convincing people, winning arguments, and influencing others. Anyone who thinks about the art of public speaking and wants to win an argument will find something exciting in this book, and will probably be happy after realizing that an effective technique of oral persuasion, invented and sparked thousands of years ago, is still plausible and very relevant today.